Any USB pen drive plugged into a Fedora Core 1 box will not automount or be mountedc as a file system at all.

Red Hat is definately behind the times if they don't support them yet.

How can I use USB pen drives with Fedora?

I was able to get my Dell memory key to work, and it now works fine with all the default settings, although to be honest, it took some playing around.

I did a Google search on memory key and linux, and came up with a bunch of suggestions, including changes to the usr/fstab file. These didn't work, but when I undid the changes, magically the key started to work just fine. It's a head-scratcher!

Here are some resources that might help:

http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/usbkey.html

http://digilander.libero.it/luzidan/usbkey.html

Most flash drives are recognized as a SCSI device....you can mount
the file system with the normal mount commancs as sda1 (it interprets
it as the first partition...assuming that sda is the FIRST SCSI device...)
I also mount with a noatime option as this will prevent time-stamping
every time a file is accessed to keep the read-write frequencey down.

I got all of this from a nice article in Linux Journal (December, It think)
and he had lots of nice suggestions.

I created a mount directory (I call mine /mnt/flashkey) and
put an entry in the fstab as a vfat file system.

I like no auto mounting...I like to mount manually, just like
my floppy's so I put in the options: noauto, user, noatime
and it works great on ALL of the fedora boxes I have installed.

So give it a whirl to mount a vfat as sda1 (if you have no other
SCSI devices.....if you do, it might be sdb1 and so on..)...
as vfat file system....also, if you have a write protect switch on
the flash drive, don't forget to switch that to the desired position
or it will mount read only.